NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--LP Building Products recently added a new case study to its online
product literature portfolio. The latest installment focuses on
Lantz-Boggio Architects and their newly designed project, The Legacy
Village at Castle Pines, a 176-unit continuing care senior living campus
in Castle Pines, Colorado. LP® FlameBlock® Fire-Rated OSB Sheathing was
used as a code-compliant component of both 1-hour and 2-hour UL-listed
fire-rated wall assemblies.

“By using the 1-sided and
2-sided FlameBlock, I was able to overcome all of these obstacles with
two products that are easily identifiable by the contractor (based on
the 1-side or 2-side coating) and that install the same as regular
plywood.”

A portion of the building has 2-hour load-bearing walls with 1-hour
walls stacked on top. Dwight Miller, Associate Principal at Lantz-Boggio
Architects, was seeking wall assembly solutions that would provide a
consistent plane across both 1-hour and 2-hour fire-rated wall
assemblies.

“When using plywood or structural wood panels behind the gypsum
sheathing on the exterior side of the wall, there is the material and
labor cost to install at least two layers of sheathing, as well as the
additional schedule time for installation and inspections of multiple
layers. Secondly, to have a 2-hour exterior wall that is stacked below a
1-hour exterior wall would either require some means of transitioning
between the change in plane, or to continue the third layer of gypsum
sheathing up the 1-hour wall,” said Miller. “By using the 1-sided and
2-sided FlameBlock, I was able to overcome all of these obstacles with
two products that are easily identifiable by the contractor (based on
the 1-side or 2-side coating) and that install the same as regular
plywood.”

About LP Building ProductsLouisiana-Pacific Corporation is
a leading manufacturer of quality engineered wood building materials,
including OSB, structural framing products, and exterior siding for
use in residential, industrial and light commercial construction. From
manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, Chile and Brazil,
LP products are sold to builders and homeowners through building
materials distributors and dealers and retail home centers. Founded in
1973, LP is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and traded on the New
York Stock Exchange under LPX. For more information, visit LPCorp.com.